John Hollinger

Mavs hopes are Flagging good post hit send.

Greatest players named after Big 12 schools, ranked:

1) Elgin Baylor
2) Allan Houston
3) Baylor Scheierman
4) UCF Williams
5) Umberto della Cincinnati

Look, Luka Garza can't carry this team to the title by himself. At some point Jayson Tatum has to help him.

Jayson Tatum starts vs. Mavericks, live updates: Highlights, analysis and latest on Celtics star's return from Achilles Injury Follow live coverage of Jayson Tatum's return from injury as the Celtics face the Mavericks in Boston.

You can follow Jayson Tatum's return in tonight's Celtics game through our live blog:

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I've moved from Sloan to TD Garden, where an excited crowd is watching UVa's Sam Hauser shoot practice 3s.

Also, Jayson Tatum is playing.

The Sports Guy Never come between an NBA stat geek and the truth.

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Go time

Life update: I have emphatically AVENGED my two curling defeats to Zarren in 2019, by a 8-2 margin. He now has seven long years to wait for a rematch.

Adam Silver presented with Sloan Sports Conference lifetime achievement award. We now have something in common besides our haircut.

Those road trips to Slovakia and Finland are gonna be tough for the non-revenue sports.

"We are going to make substantial changes for next year," said Silver, before adding "I am an incrementalist." Notable that be brought up WNBA's use of 2-year records.

Silver on tanking: "it's the fault of this conference" he jokes before noting that tanking has been destigmatized and that this season is a "perfect storm" due to preceived draft strength in '26 vs. '27 and '28.

The next chapter of our Clippers/Aspiration/Ballmer/Kawhi series will be live, onstage, at Sloan.

And on our YouTube channel.

Today — 5:30pm ET 🍎⌚

I have a deep roster of blue, collared shirts

Different checkered blue shirt! HA!!!!

Also need a coffee cup

Lol I swear I have other clothes

Lol forgot the pic

Here's Zarren kicking my ass in curling in 201i9

Fun memory lane trip on the poster here at Sloan. 2009 panel w me, Zarren, Morey, Cuban, and
@deanolytics.bsky.social, with @thesteinline.bsky.social moderating

Dorkapalooza: The Oral History of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference This is how the revolution was quantified

This oral history of Sloan is great. I remember going to the first one 20 years ago. I think I was the only football guy.

I'm kind of proud of my metaphor in here for what Sloan has grown into.

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Already off to a good start as I ran into the great Jackie MacMullan almost as soon as I got here.

Fun day to be in Boston! Sloan Conference today + possible Tatum return tonight! For those of you here at #ssac26 , my panel is at 430 in the Shane Battier Room

shout out to the gold days when you'd be like '"heading into the Spurs' arena now, talk to you guys in three hours"

sadly Vork took the train, so he couldn't stop at the Sbarro by Gate A18 at Logan on his way in.

Oh

SHOES ON

Coach Rankings 2025-26 Podcast Episode · Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast · March 5 · 1h 7m

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An inside look at how NFL scouts craft their scouting reports An NFL scouting report can range from traditional sentences to a series of color-coded messages, shorthand terms and emoji-like tags.

Fascinating read here on how NFL teams scout for draft, which is generally much more involved and complicated than NBA due to the sheer quantity of players they have to process www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

maybe not. OTOH we got the best player on a Final 4 team with the 45th pick in the draft because people were hung up on his arms being short. Third guy taken from his own team!